Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] and lead [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discovery of mirror-image patterns of magnetic field reversal in rocks on the seabed off Iceland by Vine & Matthews reported in Nature in 1963 , combined with the earlier theoretical ideas and led to the concept of sea-floor spreading . |
| 2 | On May 22-23 a 48-hour general strike , in protest against the recessionary effects of the government 's anti-inflation policies and led by the Central Unica de Trabajadores ( CUT ) , failed to secure wide support . |
| 3 | We have already seen that in order to pay for public goods and redistribution the government must raise tax revenues , which typically introduces allocative distortions and leads to a dead-weight burden . |
| 4 | These strikes were successful in achieving their immediate aims and led to the formation of permanent unions of previously poorer workers , although as yet only a small proportion of them . |
| 5 | After an early phase of rapid growth initiated by enterprising , indigenous farmers and leading to an increasingly capitalist social structure , by 1939 the Ghanaian cocoa industry had entered what has been generally a long decline accompanied by reduced employment of wage-labour . |
| 6 | For the experimental scientist such discordances and incongruities are the spur to new discoveries and lead to the development of new theories — or so at least we like to think . |